We’re also following guns found at two local schools, the North Carolina Veterans Home in Fayetteville expected to close, and when you’ll want your umbrella this weekend. Watch WRAL-TV at 7 p.m., and search for these and other stories on WRAL.com.

On WRAL at 7: New anti-drug campaign targeting your kids. WRAL goes In-depth to see if it’s influencing them to just say no

This year marks the 65th annual lighting of the WRAL-TV tower in Raleigh, an annual tradition that has grown to include celebrations with towers at American Tobacco Campus in Durham and Rocky Mount Mills.

WRAL lights towers in Raleigh, Durham and Rocky Mount

Students are reported for possession of non-firearm weapons about 20 times as often as they are for firearms. But schools are still relatively safe places, and many crime statistics in schools have been improving for years, experts say. 

Easy to conceal, harder to detect: Knives more prevalent than guns in schools 

School lockers 

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Tracks Coverage

Body camera footage captures the moment when a Georgia officer was hit by a train on train tracks. Trains move so quickly, it's nearly impossible to jump off the tracks by the time you hear one coming. 

Mhm. Yeah, he did. 86 911 Come here, give robert come out first remark at the railroad tracks, mm hmm.

Body camera captures moment when GA officer was hit by train

Body camera footage captures moment officer is hit by a train

Joe Scarborough, an electrician, was working on a home near Casar when he spotted tracks. The footprints, he says, are not human nor animal but possibly evidence of Bigfoot.

Tracks Coverage

Body camera captures moment when GA officer was hit by train

NC man says giant tracks are evidence of Big Foot